Supplier Selection Application Based on a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methodology

Due to the increasing competitiveness in every sector of business life, being effective in every process of the organizations has been required. At this point, one of the most important processes is supplier selection process within the concept of supply chain management. If a systematic supplier se...

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Main Author: Hüseyin Selçuk KILIÇ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Akademik Bilişim Araştırmaları Derneği 2012-08-01
Series:Online Academic Journal of Information Technology
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Online Access:http://www.ajit-e.org/download_pdf.php?id=37&f=37_rev1.pdf
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Summary:Due to the increasing competitiveness in every sector of business life, being effective in every process of the organizations has been required. At this point, one of the most important processes is supplier selection process within the concept of supply chain management. If a systematic supplier selection methodology is performed, it will be possible to select the most suitable supplier and provide efficiency with respect to time, quality and cost. With this study, depending on the vague structure of the real working environment, an extensively used multi criteria decision making methodology TOPSIS is used within fuzzy environment. The proposed technique is applied in a real case and the most suitable suppliers are determined and ranked.
ISSN:1309-1581